The Book Pertaining to the Turmoil and Portents
of the Last Hour (Kitab Al-Fitan wa Ashrat As-Sa`ah)

Zainab bint Jahsh reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him) got up from sleep saying: There is no god but Allah; there is a
destruction in store for Arabia because of turmoil which is at hand,
the barrier of Gog and Magog has opened so much. And Sufyan made a sign
of ten with the help of his hand (in order to indicate the width of
the gap) and I said: Allah's Messenger, would we be perished in spite
of the fact that there would be good people amongst us? Thereupon he
said: Of course, but only when the evil predominates.

Zainab bint Jahsh, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon
him), reported that one day Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
came out in a state of excitement with his face quite red. And he was
saying: There is no god but Allah; there is a destruction in store for
Arabia beciuse of the turmoil which is near at hand as the barrier of
Gog and Magog has been opened like it, and he (in order to explain it)
made a ring with the help o his thumb and forefinger. I said: Allah's
Messenger, would we be destroyed despite the fact that there would be
pious people amongst us? He said: Yes, when the evil would predominate.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying:
Today the wall (barrier) of Gog and Magog has been opened so much, and
WUhaib (in order to explain it) made the figure of ninety with the help
of his hand.

Chapter 2: THE SINKING OF AN ARMY IN THE EARTH WHICH WOULD ATTACK
THE HOUSE

Harith b Abi Rabi'a and 'Abdullah b. Safwan both went to Umm Salama,
the Mother of the Faithful, and they asked her about the army which
would be sunk in the earth, and this relates to the time when Ibn Zubair
(was the governor of Mecca). She reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) had said that a seeker of refuge would seek refuge
in the Sacred House and an army would be sent to him (in order to kill
him) and when it would enter a plain ground, it would be made to sink.
I said: Allah's Messenger, what about him who would be made to accompany
this army willy nilly? Thereupon he said: He would be made to sink along
with them buf he would be raised on the Day of Resurrection on the basis
of his intention. Abu Ja'far said. ' This plain, ground means the plain
ground of Medina.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Rufai,
with the same chain of transmitters (but with the addition of these
words):" When I met Abu Ja'far I told him that she (simply) meant the
plain ground. Thereupon Abu Ja'far said: No, by God, she meant the plain
ground of Medina.

Abdullah b. Safwan reported that Hafsa told him that she had heard
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: An army would attack
this House in order to fight against the inhabitants of this House and
when it would be at the plain ground the ranks in the centre of the
army would be sunk and the vanguard would call the rear flanks of the
army and they would also be sunk and no flank would be left except some
people who would go to inform them (their kith and kin). A person (who
had been listening to this badith from Abdullah b. Safwan) said: I bear
testimony in regard to you that you are not imputing a lie to Hafsa.
And I bear testimony to the fact that Hafsa is not telling a lie about
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him).

Abdullah b. Safwan reported the Mother of the Faithful as saying that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: They would soon seek
protection in this House, viz. Ka'ba (the defenceless), people who would
have nothing to protect themselves in the shape of weapons or the strength
of the people. An army would be sent to fight (and kill) them and when
they would enter a plain ground the army would be sunk in it. Yiisuf
(one of the narrators) said: It was a people of Syria (hordes of Hajjaj)
who had been on that day comin. towards Mecca for an attack (on 'Abdulllah
b. Zubair) and Abdullah b. Safwan said: By God, it does not imply this
army.

'A'isha reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was
startled in the state of sleep. We said: Allah's Messenger, you have
done something in the state of your sleep which you never did before,
Thereupon he said: Strange it is that some, people of my Ummah would
attack the House (Ka'ba) (for killing) a person who would belong to
the tribe of the Quraish and he would try to seek protection in the
House. And when they would reach the plain ground they would be sunk.
We said: Allah's Messenger, all sorts of people throng the path. Thereupon
he said: Yes, there would be amongst them people who would come with
definite designs and those who would come under duress and there would
be travellers also, but they would all be destroyed through one (stroke)
of destruction. though they would be raised in different states (on
the Day of Resurrection). Allah would, however, raise them according
to their intention.

Usama reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) climbed
up a battlement amongst the battlements of Medina and then said: You
do not see what I am seeing and I am seeing the places of turmoil between
your houses as tile places of rainfall.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: There will be soon a period of turmoil in which the one who
sits will be better than one who stands and the one who stands will
be better than one who walks and the one who walks will be better than
one who runs. He who would watch them will be drawn by them. So he who
finds a refuge or shelter against it should make it as his resort.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira but
with this variation of wording that in the hadith transmitted on the
authority of Abu Bakr, there is an addition of these words:" There is
a prayer among prayers ('Asr) and one who misses it is as if his family
and property have been ruined."

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying:
There would be turmoil and the one who would sleep would be better than
who would be awake and the one who would be awake would be better than
one who would stand and one who would stand would be better than one
who would run. So he who finds refuge or shelter should take that refuge
or shelter.

Abu Bakra reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
There would soon be turmoil. Behold! there would be turmoil in which
the one who would be seated would be better than one who would stand
and the one who would stand would be better than one who would run.
Behold! when the turmoil comes or it appears, the one who has camel
should stick to his camel and he who has sheep or goat should stick
to his sheep and goat and he who has land should stick to the land.
A person said: 'Allah's Messenger, what is your opinion about one who
has neither camel nor sheep nor land? Thereupon, he said: He should
take hold of his sword and beat its edge with the help of stone and
then try to find a way of escape. O Allah, I have conveyed (Thy Message)
; O Allah, I have conveyed (Thy Message) ; O Allah, I have conveyed
(Thy Message). A person said: Allah's Messenger, what is your opinion
it I am drawn to a rank in spite of myself, or in one of the groups
and made to march and a man strikes with his sword or there comes an
arrow and kills me? Thereupon he said: He will bear the punishment of
his sin and that of yours and he would be one amongst the denizens of
Hell.

Ahnaf b. Qais reported: I set out with the intention of helping this
person (Hadrat 'Ali) that Abu Bakra met me. He said: Ahnaf, where do
you intend to go? I said: I intend to help the cousin of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him), viz. 'Ali. Thereupon he said to me: Ahnaf,
go back, for I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
When two Muslims confront one another with swords (in hands) both the
slayer and the slain would be in Fire. He (Ahnaf) said: I said, or it
was said: Allah's Messenger, it may be the case of one who kills. but
what about the slain (why he would be put in Hell-Fire)? Thereupon he
said: He also intended to kill his companion.

Ahnaf b. Qais reported on the authority of Abu Bakra that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: When two Muslims confront each
other with their swords, both the slayer and the slain are doomed to
Hell-Fire.

Abu Bakra reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
When two Muslims (confront each other) and the one amongst them attacks
his brother with a weapon, both of them are at the brink of Hell-Fire.
And when one of them kills his companion, both of them get into Hell-Fire.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) many
ahadith and one of them was this: The last Hour will not come until
the two parties (of Muslims) confront each other and there is a large-scale
massacre amongst them and the claim of both of them is the same.

Thauban reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
Allah drew the ends of the world near one another for my sake. And I
have seen its eastern and western ends. And the dominion of my Unimah
would reach those ends which have been drawn near me and I have been
granted the red and the white trea- sure and I begged my Lord for my
Ummah that it should not be destroyed because of famine, nor be dominated
by an enemy who is not amongst them to take their lives and destroy
them root and branch, and my Lord said: Muhammad, whenever I make a
decision, there is none to change it. Well, I grant you for your Ummah
that it would not be destroyed by famine and it would not be dominated
by an enemy who would not be amongst it and would take their lives and
destroy them root and branch even if all the people from the different
parts of the world join hands together (for this purpose), but it would
be from amongst them, viz. your Ummah, that some people would kill the
others or imprison the others.

Thauban reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said.
Verily, Allah drew the ends of the world near me until I saw its cast
and west an He bestowed upon me two treasures, the red and the white.
The rest of the hadith is the same.

'Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that one day
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came from a high, land. He
passed by the mosque of Banu Mu'awiya, went in and observed two rak'ahs
there and we also observed prayer along with him and he made a long
supplication to his Lord. He then came to us and said: I asked my Lord
three things and He has granted me two but has withheld one. I begged
my Lord that my Ummah should not be destroyed because of famine and
He granted me this. And I begged my Lord that my Ummah should not be
destroyed by drowning (by deluge) and He granted me this. And I begged
my Lord that there should be no bloodshed among the people of my Ummah.
but He did not grant it.

Amir b. Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) came with a group of his Companions
and he passed by the mosque of Banu Mu'awiya. The rest of the hadith
is the same.

Chapter 6: THE EVENTS FORETOLD BY THE HOLY PROPHET (MAY PEACE
BE UPON HIM) ABOUT THE LAST HOUR

Hudhaifa b. al-Yaman reported: By Allah, I have the best knowledge
amongst people about every turmoil which is going to appear in the period
intervening me and the Last Hour; and it is not for the fact that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) told me something confidentially pertaining
to it and he did not tell anybody else about it, but it is because of
the fact that I was present in the assembly in which he had been describing
the turmoil. and he especially made a mention of three turmoils which
would not spare anything and amongst these there would be turmoils like
storms in the hot season. Some of them would be violent and some of
them would be comparatively mild. Hudhaifa said: All (who were present)
except I have gone (to the next world).

Hudhaifa reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) stood
before us one day and he did not leave anything unsaid (that he had
to say) at that very spot which would happen (in the shape of turmoil)
up to the Last Hour. Those who had to remember them preserved them in
their minds and those who could not remember them forgot them. My friends
knew them and there are certain things which slip out of my mind, but
I recapitulate them when anyone makes a mention of them just as a person
is lost from one's mind but is recalled to him on seeing his face.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of A'mash with the
same chain of transmitters up to the words: And he forgot who had to
forget that and. he did not make a mention of what follows after this.

Hudhaifa reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) informed
me of what is going to happen before the approach of the Last Hour.
And there is nothing that I did not ask him in this connection except
this that I did not ask him as to what would turn the people of Medina
out from Medina.

Abu Zaid (viz. Amr b. Akhtab) reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) led us in the dawn prayer and then mounted the pulpit and
addressed us until it was (time for the) noon prayer. He then came down
the pulpit and observed prayer and then again mounted the pulpit and
again addressed us until it was time for the 'Asr prayer. He then again
came down and observed the prayer and again mointed the pulpit and addressed
us until the sun was set and he informed (about) everything (pertaining
to turmoil) that lay hidden in the past and what lies in (the womb)
of) the future and the most learned amongst us is one who remembers
them well

Hudhaifa repotted: We were one day in the company of 'Umar that he
said: Who amongst you has preserved in his mind most perfectly the hadith
of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) in regard to the turmoil
as he told about it? I said: It is I. Thereupon he said: You are bold
(enough to make this claim). And he further said: How? I said: I heard
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There would (first)
be turmoil for a person in regard to his family, his property, his own
self, his children, his neighbours (and the sins comnaitted in their
connection) would be expiated by fasting, prayer, charity, enjoining
good and prohibiting evil. Thereupon 'Umar said: I do not mean (that
turmoil on a small scale) but that one which would eme-ge like the mounting
waves of the ocean. I said: Commander of the Faithful, you have nothing
to do with it, for the door is closed between you and that. He said:
Would that door be broken or opened? I said: No, it would be broken.
Thereupon he said: Then it would not be closed despite best efforts.
We said to Hudhaifa: Did Umar know the door? Thereupon he said: Yes,
he knew it (for certain) just as one knows that night precede the next
day. And I narrated to him something in which there was nothing fabricated.
Shaqiq (one of the narrators) said: We dared not ask Hudhaifa about
that door. So we requested Masrdq to ask him. So he asked him and he
said: (By that door, he meant) 'Umar.

Jundub reported: I came on the day of Jara'a that a person was (found)
sitting. I said: They would shed their blood today. That person said:
By Allah. not at all. I said: By Allah, of course, they would do it.
He said: By Allah, they would not do it. I said: By Allah, of course,
they would do it. He said: By Allah, they would not do it, and I have
heard a hadith of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) which I
am narrating to you in this connection. I said: You are a bad seat fellow.
I have been opposing you since morning and you are listening to me in
spite of the fact that you have heard a hadith from Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) (contrary to ray statement). I myself felt that
there was no use of this annoyance. (He could tell me earlier that it
was a hadith of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him], and I would
not have opposed him at all.) I turned my face toward him and asked
him and he was Hadrat Hudhaifa.

Chapter 8: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE EUPIIRATES
UNCOVERS A TREASURE OF GOLD

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come before the Euphrates uncovers a
mountain of gold, for which people would fight. Ninety-nine out of each
one hundred would die but every man amongst them would say that perhaps
he would be the one who would be saved (and thus possess this gold).

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come unless the Euphrates would uncover
a treasure of gold, so he who finds it should not take anything out
of that.

'Abdullah b. Harith b. Naufal reported: I was standing along with
Ubayy b. Ka, b and he said: The opinions of the people differ in regard
to the achievement of worldly ends. I said: Yes, of course. Thereupon
he said: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
The Euphrates would soon uncover a mountain of gold and when the people
would bear of it they would flock towards it but the people who would
possess that (treasure) (would say): If we allow these persons to take
out of it they would take away the whole of it. So they would fight
and ninety-nine out of one hundred would be killed. Abu Kamil in his
narration said: I and Abu Ka'b stood under the shade of the battlement
of Hassan.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: Iraq would withhold its dirhams and qafiz; Syria would withhold
its mudd and dinar and Egypt would withhold its irdab and dinar and
you would recoil to that position from where you started and you would
recoil to that position from where you started and you would recoil
to that position from where you started, the bones and the flesh of
Abu Huraira would bear testimony to it.

Chapter 9: PERTAINING TO THE CONQUEST OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND
THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL AND DESCENT OF JESUS SON OF MARY (JESUS CHRIST)

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would land at
al-A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best (soldiers) of the
people of the earth at that time will come from Medina (to counteract
them). When they will arrange themselves in ranks, the Romans would
say: Do not stand between us and those (Muslims) who took prisoners
from amongst us. Let us fight with them; and the Muslims would say:
Nay, by Allah, we would never get aside from you and from our brethren
that you may fight them. They will then fight and a third (part) of
the army would run away, whom Allah will never forgive. A third (part
of the army). which would be constituted of excellent martyrs in Allah's
eye, would be killed ani the third who would never be put to trial would
win and they would be conquerors of Constantinople. And as they would
be busy in distributing the spoils of war (amongst themselves) after
hanging their swords by the olive trees, the Satan would cry: The Dajjal
has taken your place among your family. They would then come out, but
it would be of no avail. And when they would come to Syria, he would
come out while they would be still preparing themselves for battle drawing
up the ranks. Certainly, the time of prayer shall come and then Jesus
(peace be upon him) son of Mary would descend and would lead them in
prayer. When the enemy of Allah would see him, it would (disappear)
just as the salt dissolves itself in water and if he (Jesus) were not
to confront them at all, even then it would dissolve completely, but
Allah would kill them by his hand and he would show them their blood
on his lance (the lance of Jesus Christ).

Chapter 10: THE LAST HOUR WOULD COME WHEN THE ROMANS WOULD HAVE
THE MAXIMUM POPULATION

Mustaurid al-Qurashi reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) as saying: The Last Hour would come (when) the Romans would
form a majority amongst people. 'Amr said to him (Mustaurid Qurashi):
See what you are saying? He said: I say what I heard from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him). Thereupon he said: If you say that, it is a
fact for they have four qualities. They have the patience to undergo
a trial and immediately restore themselves to sanity after trouble and
attack again after flight. They (have the quality) of being good to
the destitute and the orphans, to the weak and, fifthly, the good quality
in them is that they put resistance against the oppression of kings.

Mustaurid Qurashi reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The Last Hour would come when the Romans would
form a majority amongst people. This reached 'Amr b. al-'As and he said:
What are these ahadith which are being transmitted from you and which
you claim to have heard from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)?
Mustaurid said to him: I stated only that which I heard from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him). Thereupon 'Amr said: If you state
this (it is true), for they have the power of tolerance amongst people
at the time of turmoil and restore themselves to sanity after trouble,
and are good amongst people so far as the destitute and the weak are
concerned.

Chapter 11: THERE WOULD BE MUCH BLOODSHED AMONG ROMANS AT THE
TIME OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL

Yusair b. Jabir reported: Once there blew a red storm in Kufah that
there came a person who had nothing to say but (these words): Abdullah
b. Mas'ud, the Last Hour has come. He ('Abdullah b. Mas'ud) was sitting
reclining against something, and he said: The Last Hour would not come
until the people divide in- heritance and rejoice over booty, and then
said pointing towards Syria, with the gesture of his hand like this:
The enemy shall muster strength against Muslims and the Muslims will
muster strength against them (Syrians). I said: You mean Rome? And he
said: Yes, and there would be a terrible fight and the Muslims would
prepare a detachment (for fighting unto death) which would not return
but victorious. They will fight until night will intervene them; both
the sides will return without being victorious and both will be wiped
out. The Muslims will again prepare a detachment for fighting unto death
so that they may not return but victorious. When it would be the fourth
day, a new detachment out of the remnant of the Muslims would be prepared
and Allah will decree that the enemy should be routed. And they would
fight such a fight the like of which would not be seen, so much so that
even if a bird were to pass their flanks, it would fall down dead before
reaching the end of them. (There would be such a largescale massacre)
that when counting would be done, (only) one out of a hundred men related
to one another would be found alive. So what can be the joy at the spoils
of such war and what inheritance would be divided! They would be in
this very state that they would hear of a calamity more horrible than
this. And a cry would reach them: The Dajjil has taken your place among
your off- spring. They will, therefore, throw away what would be in
their hands and go forward sending ten horsemen, as a scouting party.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I know their names and
the names of their forefathers and the colour of their horses. They
will be best horsemen on the surface of the earth on that day or amongst
the best horsemen on the surface of the earth on that day.

Nafi' b. Utba reported: We were with Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) in an expedition that there came a people to Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) from the direction of the west. They were dressed
in woollen clothes and they stood near a hillock and they met him as
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was sitting. I said to myself:
Better go to them and stand between him and them that they may not attack
him. Then I thought that perhaps there had been going on secret negotiation
amongst them. I however, went to them and btood between them and him
and I remember four of the words (on that occasion) which I repeat (on
the fingers of my hand) that he (Allah's Messenger) said: You will attack
Arabia and Allah will enable you to conquer it, then you would attack
Persia and He would make you to Conquer it. Then you would attack Rome
and AllgLh will enable you to conquer it, then you would attack the
Dajjal and Allah will enable you to conquer him. Nafi' said: Jabir,
we thought that the Dajjal would appear after Rome (Syrian territory)
would be conquered.

Hudhaifa b. Usaid Ghifari reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) came to us all of a sudden as we were (busy in a discussion).
He said: What do you discuss about? They (the Companions) said. We are
discussing about the Last Hour. Thereupon he said: It will not cone
until you see ten signs before and (in this connection) he made a mention
of the smoke, Dajjal, the beast, the rising of the sun from the west,
the descent of Jesus son of Mary (Allah be pleased with him), the Gog
and Magog, and land-slidings in three places, one in the east, one in
the west and one in Arabia at the end of which fire would burn forth
from the Yemen, and would drive people to the place of their assembly.

Hudhaifa b. Usaid reported: Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
was in an apartment and we were beneath that that he peeped in and said
to us: What are you discussing about? We said: (We are discussing about
the Last) Hour. Thereupon he said: The Last Hour would not come until
the ten signs dppear: land-sliding in the east, and land-sliding in
the west, and land-sliding in the peninsula of Arabia, the smoke, the
Dajjal, the beast of the earth, Gog and Magog, the rising of the sun
from the west and the fire which would emit from the lower part of 'Adan.
Shu'ba said that 'Abd al-'Aziz b. Rufai' reported on the authority of
Abu Tufail who reported on the authority of Abu Sariha a hadith like
this that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) did not make a mention
of (the tenth sign) but he said that out of the ten one was the descent
of Jesus Christ, son of Mary (peace be upon him), and in another version
it is theb lowing of the violent gale which would drive the people to
the ocean.

Abu Sariha reported: Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) was
in an (upper) apartment and we were standing lower to him and discussing
(about the Last Hour). The rest of the hadith is the same, and Shu'ba
said: I think he also said these words: The fire would descend along
with them where they would land and where they would take rest (during
midday (it would also cool down for a while). Shu'ba said: This hadith
has been transmitted to me through Abu Tufail and Abu Sariha and none
could trace it back directly to Allah's Apostle (may peace b.. upon
him). However, there is a mention of the descent of Jesus Christ son
of Mary in one version and in the other there is a mention of the blowing
of a violent would drive them to the ocean.

Abu Sariha reported: We were discussing the Last Hour) that Allah's
Apostle (may peace be upon him) looked towards us. The rest of the hadith
is the same and the tenth (sign) was the descent of Jesus Christ son
of Mary, and Shu'ba said: 'Abd al-'Aziz did not trace it directly to
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him).

Chapter 14: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE FIRE EMITS
FROM THE EARTH OF HIJAZ

Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger may peace be upon him)
said: The Last Hour would not come until fire emits from the earth of
Hijaz which would illuminate the necks of the camels of the Busra.

Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: (The Last Hour would not come) until the habitations of Medina
would extend to Ihab or Yahab. Zubair said: I said to Suhail how far
these were from Medina. He said: So and so miles.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The famine would not break otit because of drought, but there
would be famine despite heavy rainfall as nothing would grow from the
earth.

Ibn 'Umar reported that he heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying (in a state) that he had turned his face towards the
east: Behold, turmoil would appear from this side, from where the horns
of Satan would appear.

Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
stood by the door (of the apartment of) gafsa and, pointing towards
the east, he said: The turmoil would appear from this side, viz. where
the horns of Satan would appear, and he uttered these words twice or
thrice and Ubaidullah b. Sa'ld in his narration said. The Messenger
of Allah (may peace be upon him) had been standing by the door of 'A'isha.

Salim b. Abdullah reported on the authority of his father that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him), while turning his face towards the
east, said: The turmoil would appear from this side; verily, the turmoil
would appear from this side; verily, the turmoil. would appear from
this side-the side where appear the horns of Satan.

Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) came
out from the house of 'A'isha and said: It would be from this side that
there would appear the height of unbelief, viz. where appear the horns
of Satan. i. e. cast.

Ibn Umar reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying while pointing his hands towards the east: The turmoil would
appear from this side; verily, the turmoil would appear from this side
(he repeated it thrice) where appear the horns of Satan.

Ibn Fudail reported on the authority of his father that he heard Salim
b. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar as saying: O people of Iraq, how strange it is
that you ask about the minor sins but commit major sins? I heard from
my father 'Abdullah b. 'Umar, narrating that he heard Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) as saying while pointing his hand towards the
east: Verily. the turmoil would come from this side, from where appear
the horns of Satan and you would strike the necks of one another; and
Moses killed a person from among the people of Pharaoh unintentionally
and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said:" You killed a person but
We relieved you from the grief and tried you with (many a) trial" (xx.
40). Ahmad b. Umar reported this hadith from Salim, but he did not make
a mention of the words:" I heard".

Chapter 15: THE LAST HOUR WOULD NOT COME UNTIL THE WOMEN OF
THE TRIBE OF DAUS WOULD GO ROUND DHI AL-KHALASA

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come until the women of the tribe of
Daus would be seen going round Dhi al-Khalasa (for worship) and Dhi
al-Khalasa is a place in Tabala, where there was a temple in which the
people of the tribe of Daus used to worship the idol.

'A'isha reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: The (system) of night and day would not end until the people
have taken to the worship of Lat and 'Uzza. I said: Allah's Messenger,
I think when Allah has revealed this verse:" He it is Who has sent His
Messenger with right guidance, and true religion, so that He may cause
it to prevail upon all religions, though the polytheists are averse
(to it)" (ix. 33), it implies that (this promise) is going to be fulfilled.
Thereupon he (Allah's Apostle) said: It would happen as Allah would
like. Then Allah would send the sweet fragrant air by which everyone
who has even a mustard grain of faith in Him would die and those only
would survive who would have no goodness in them. And they would revert
to the religion of their forefathers.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come until a person would pass by a
grave of another person and he would say: I wish it had been my abode.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: By Him, in Whose hand is my life, the world would not come to
an end until a person would pass by a grave, would roll over it and
express the desire that he should be in the place of the occupant of
that grave not because of religious reasons but because of this calamity.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, a time would come when the
murderer would not know why he has committed the murder, and the victim
would not know why he has been killed.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The world would not come to an end until a day would come to
the people on which the murderer would not know as to why he has killed
and the slain would not know as to why he has been murdered. It would
be said: Why would It happen? To which he replied: It would be because
of general massacre and bloodshed. And the slaughterers and the slain
would be in Fire, and in the narration of Ibn Aban, the name of Abu
Isma'il has been mentioned.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come unless you fight with people whose
faces are like hammered shields and the Last Hour would not come until
you would fight against those wearing the shoes of hair.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come until you fight with a people wearing
shoes of hair and the Last Hour would not come until you fight with
a people having small eyes and broad snub noses.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come until the Muslims fight with the
Turks-a people whose faces would be like hammered shields wearing clothes
of hair and walking (with shoes) of hair.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: You shall fight in the hours to come against a nation wearing
shoes made of hair and faces like hammered shields, with red complexion
and small eyes.

Abu Nadra reported:" We were in the company of Jabir b. 'Abdulldh
that he said it may happen that the people of Iraq may not send their
qafiz and dirhams (their measures of food stuff and their money). We
said: Who would be respolisible for it? He said: The non_Arabs would
prevt them. He again said: There is the possibility that the people
of Syria may not send their dinar and mudd. We said: Who would be responsible
for it? He said This prevention would be made by the Romans. He (Jabir
b. Abdullab) kept quiet for a while and then reported Allah', s Messengdt
(may peas be upon him) having said There would be a caliph in the last
(period) of my Ummah who would freely give handfuls of wealth to thd
people wiothout counting it. I said to Abu Nadra and Abu al-'Ala: DO
you mean 'Umarb. 'Abd al-Aziz? They said: No (he would be Imam Mahdi.).

Abu Sa'id reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him)
I said: There would be amongest your caliphs a caliph who would give
handfuls of wealth to the, but wbuld not count it. In. the narration
transmitted on the authority of Ibn Hujr, there is a slight variation
of wording.

Abu Sa'id Khudri reported: One who Is better than I informed me, that
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to 'Ammar as he was digging
the ditch (on the ocasion of the Battle of the Ditch) wiping over his
head: O son of Summayya you will be involved in trouble and a group
of the rebels would kill you.

This hadith has been transmitted on the same authority but with this
variation that the hadith trarismitted on the authority of Nabra (the
words are): One Who is better than I informed me, and he was Abu Qatatda,
and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Khalid instead of
the word 'bu_us' there is 'dys' or 'yadis', i. e.:" how sad it is".

Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him)
as saying: This tribe of the Quraish would kill (people) of wy Ummah.
They (the Companions) said: What us to do (in such a situations)? Thereupon
he said: Would that the people remain aside from them (and not besmear
their hand with the blood of the Muslim).

Abu Huraira reported that Allh's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: (Khusrau king of Persia) would die and Qaisar (Ceasar King of
Rome) would die; there would be no Qaisar after him, but, by one in
Whose Hand is my life, you would spend their treasures in the cause
of Allah.

Hammam b. Munabbih reported: This is what Abu Huraira reported from
Allah's messenger (may peace be upon him) and in this connection he
reported so many hadith (and one of them was this): Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) said: Kisra would die and then there would be
no Kisra after him. Qaisar would die and there would be no Qaisar after
him, but you will distribute their threasuers in thecause of Allah.

Jabir b. Samura reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) (as sayingt There would lie open for a group of Muslims, or
for a group of believers, the treasures of the family of Kisra which
would be in the whit (palace). In a version of Qutaiba there is definitely
the word" Muslim".

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace he upon him) saying:
You have heard about a city the one side of which is in the land and
the other is in the sea (Constantinople). They said: Allall's Messenger,
yes. Thererupon he said: The Last Hour would not cmoe unlesss seventy
thousand persons from Bani lsra'il would attack it. When they would
land there, they will neither fight with weapons nor would shower arrows
but would only say:" There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest,"
that one side of it would fall. Thaur (one of the narrators) said: I
think that he said: The part by the side of the ocean. Then they would
say for the second time:" There is no god but Allah and Allah is the
Greatest" that the second side would also fall, and they would say:"
There is no god but Allah and Allah is the Greatest," that the gates
would be opened for them and they would enter therein and, they would
be collecting spoils of war and distributing them amongst themselves
that a noise would be heard and It would be said: Verily, Dajjal has
come. And thus they would leave everything there and would turn to him.

Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
You will fight against the Jews and you will kill them until even a
stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a Jew (hiding himself behind
me) ; kill him.

Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
as saying: You and the Jews would fight against one another until a
stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.

Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: The Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory
over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a Jew behind me;
kill him.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against
the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves
behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or
the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but
the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.

Jabir b. Samura reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: Before the Last Hour there would be many liars,
and there is an addition in the badith transmitted on the authority
of Abu Ahwas of these words:" I said to him: Did you hear it from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him)? He said: Yes."

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would not come until there would arise about thirty
impostors, liars, and each one of them would claim that he is a messenger
of Allah.

'Abdullah reported: We were along with Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) that we happened to pass by children amongst whom there
was Ibn Sayyad. The children made their way but Ibn Sayyad kept sitting
there (and it seemed) as if Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
did not like it (his sitting with the children) and said to him: May
your nose he besmeared with dust, don't you bear testimony to the fact
that I am the Messenger of Allah? Thereupon he said: No, but you should
bear testimony that I am the messenger of Allah. Thereupon 'Umar b.
Khattab said: Allah's Messenger, permit me that I should kill him. Thereupon
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: If he is that person
who is in your mind (Dajjal ), you will not be able to kill him.

'Abdullah reported: We were walking with Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) that Ibn Sayyad happened to pass by him. Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) said to him: I have concealed for you (something
to test you, so tell me that). He said: It is Dukh. Thereupon Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to him: Be off. You cannot get
farther than your rank, whereupon 'Umar said: Allah's Messenger, permit
me to strike his neck. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) said: Leave him; if he is that one (Dajjal) whom you apprehend,
you will not be able to kill him.

Abu Sa'id reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
met him (Ibn Sayyad) and so did Abu Bakr and 'Umar on some of the roads
of Medina. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Do you bear
testimony to the fact that I am the Messenger of Allah? Thereupon he
said: Do you bear testimony to the fact that I am the messenger of Allah?
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I affirm my
faith in Allah and in His Angels and in His Books, and what do you see?
He said: I see the throne over water. Whereupon Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: You see the throne of Iblis upon the water,
and what else do you see? He said: I see two truthfuls and a liar or
two liars and one truthful. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: Leave him He has been confounded.

Jabir b 'Abdullah reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) met Ibn Sa'id (Sayyad) and there were with him Abu Bakr and 'Umar
and Ibn Sayyad was in the company of children. The rest of the hadith
is the same.

Abu Sa'id reported: I accompanied Ibn Sayyad to Mecca and he said
to me: What I have gathered from people is that theu think that I am
Dajjal. Have you not hearde Allah's Messenger (may peace upon him) as
saying: He will have no no children, I said: Yes, of course. Thereupon
he said: But I have children. Have you not heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: He would not enter Mecca and Medina? I
said: Yes, of course. Thereupon he said I have been once in Medina and
now I intend to go to Mecca. And he said to me at the end of his talk:
By Allah: I know his place of birth his abode where he is just now.
He (Abu Sa'id) said: This caused confusion in my mind (in regard to
his identity).

Abu Sa'id Khudri reported: Ibn Sa'id said to me somethhing for which
I felt ashamed. He said: I can excuse others; but what has gone wrong
with you, O Companions of Muhammad, that you take me as Dajjal? Has
Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) not said that he would be a
Jew whereas I am a Muslim and he also said that he would not have children,
whereas I have children, and he also said: veryly, Allah has prohibited
him to enter Mecca whereas I have performed Pilgrimage, atid. he went
on saying this that I was about to be impressed by his tallk. He (however)
said this also: I know where he (Dajjal) is and I know his father abd
I mother, and it was said to him: Won't you feel pleased if you would
be the same person? Thereupon he said: If this offer is made to me,
I would noT resent that.

Abu Sa'id Khudri reported: We came back after having pewrformed Pilgrimage
or 'Umra and lbn Sa'id was along with us. And w, e encamped at a place
and the people dispersed and I and he were left behind. I felt terribly
frightend from him as it was said about him that he was the Dajjal.
He brought his goods and placed them by my luggage and I said: It is
intense heat. Would you not place that under that tree? And he did that.
Then ther appeared before us a flock of sheep. He went and brought a
cup of milk and said: Abu Sa'id, drink that. I said it is intense heat
and the milk is also hot (whereas the fact was) that I did not like
to drink from his hands or to opr to take it from his hand and he said:
Abu Sa'id, I think that I should take a rope and suspend it by the tree
and then coimmit sucide because of the talks of the people, and he furtlier
said. Abu Sa'id he who is ingnoran of the saying of Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) (he is to be pardoned), but O people of Ansar,
is this hadith of Allah's Messengern (may peace be upon him) concealed
from you whereas you have the best konowledge of t this hadith of Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) amongst people? Did Allalt's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) not say that he (Dajjal) would be a non believer
whereas I am a believer? did Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
not say he would be barren and no child would be born to hirn, whereas
I have left my children in Medina? Did Allh's Messenger (may peace upon
him) not say: He would not get into Medina and Mecca whereas I have
been coming from Medina and now I intend to go to Mecca? Abu Sa'id said:
I was about to accept the excuse put forward by him. that he said: I
know the place where he would be born and where he is now. So I said
to him: May your whole dayb be spent

This hadith has transmitted on the authority of Abu Sa'id that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) asked Ibn Sa'id about the earth of
Paradise. Thereupon he said: Abu'l-Qasim, It is like a fine white musk,
whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: 'You have told the the truth.

'Muhammad b. Munkadir reported: As I saw Jabir b. 'Abdullah taking
an oath in the name of Allah that it was Ibn Sa'id who was the Dajjal
I said: Do you take an oath in the name of Allah? Thereupon he said:
I heard 'Umar taking an oath in the presence of Allah's Apostle (may
peace be upon him) to this effect but Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) did not disapprove of it.

'Abdullah b. Umar reported: 'Umar b. Khattab went along with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) in the company of some persons toIbn
Sayyad that he found him playing with children near the bettlement of
Bani Maghala and Ibn Sayyad was at that time just at the threshold of
adolescence and he did not perceive (the presence of Holy Prophet) until
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) struck his back with his hands.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Ibn Sayyad, don't you
bear witness that I am the messenger of Allah? Ibn Sayyad looked toward
him and he said: I bear witness to the fact that you the messenger of
the unlettered. Ibn Sayyad said to the Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him): Do you bear witness to the fact that I am the messenger
of Allah? Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) rejected this and
said: I affirm my faith in Allah and in His messengers. Then Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said to him: What do you see? Ibn
Sayyad said: It us a Dukh. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: May you be disgraced and dishonoured, you would not
not be able to go beyond your rank. 'Umar b. Khattab said: Allah's Messenger,
permit me that I should strike his neck. Therupon Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) said: If he is the same (Dajjal) who would appear
near the Last Hour, you would not be able to overpower him, and he is
not that ther is no good for you to kill him. 'Abdullah b. 'Umar further
narrated that after some time Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
and Ubayy b. Ka'b went towards the palm trees where Ibn Sayyad was.
When Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) went near the tree he
hid himself behind a tree with the intention of hearing something from
Ibn sayyad before Ibn Sayyad could see him, but Allah's Messenger (may
pcxce be upon him) saw him on a bed with a blanket around him from which
a murmuring sound was being heard and Ibn Sayyad's mother saw Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) behind the trunk of the palm tree.
She said to Ibn Sayyad: Saf (that being his name), here is Muhammad.
Thereupon Ibn Sayyad jumped up murmuring and Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: If she had left him alone he would have made
things clear. Abdullah b. Umar told that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) stood up amongst the people and lauded Allah as He deserved,
then he made a mention of the Dajjal and said: I warn you of him and
there is no Prophet who has not warned his people against the Dajjal.
Even Noah warned (against him) but I am going to tell you a thing which
no Prophet told his people. You must know that he (the Dajjal) is one-eyed
and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, is not one-eyed. Ibn Shihab said:
'Umar b. Thabit al-Ansari informed me that some of the Companions of
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) informed him that the day
when Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) warned people against
the Dajjal, he also said: There would be written between his two eyes
(the word) Kafir (infidel) and everyone who would resent his deeds would
be able to read or every Muslim would be about to read, and he also
said: Bear this thing in mind that none amongst you would be able to
see Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, until he dies.

Abdullah b. Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) went along with him in the company of some persons and there was
Umar b. Khattab also amongst them till they saw Ibn Sayyad as a young
boy just on the threshold of adolescence playing with children near
the battlement of Bani Mu'awiya; the rest of the hadith is the same
but with these concluding words:" Had his mother left him (to murmur)
his matter would have become clear."

Ibn 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
happened to pass by Ibn Sayyad along with his Companions including 'Umar
b. Khattab as he was playing with children near the battlement of Bani
Maghala and he was also a child by that time. The rest of the hadith
is the same as narrated by Ibn Umar (in which there is a mention of)
setting out of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) along with Ubayy
b. Ka'b towards the date-palm trees.

Nafi' reported that Ibn 'Umar met Ibn Si'id on some of the paths of
Medina and he said to him a word which enraged him and he was so much
swollen with anger that the way was blocked. Ibn 'Umar went to Hafsa
and informed her about this. Thereupon she said: May Allah have mercy
upon you, why did you incite Ibn Sayyad in spite of the fact that you
knew it would be the extreme anger which would make Dajjal appear in
the world?

Nafi' reported that Ibn 'Umar said: I met lbn Sayyad twice and said
to some of them (his friends): You state that it was he (the Dajjal).
He said: By Allah, it is not so. I said: You have not told me the truth;
by Allah some of you informed me that he would not die until he would
have the largest number of offspring and huge wealth and it is he about
whom it is thought so. Then Ibn Sayyad talked to us. I then departed
and met him again for the second time and his eye had been swollen.
I said: What has happened to your eye? He said: I do not know. I said:
This is in your head and you do not know about it? He said: If Allah
so wills He can create it (eye) in your staff. He then produced a sound
like the braying of a donkey. Some of my companions thought that I had
struck him with the staff as he was with me that the staff broke into
pieces, but, by Allah, I was not conscious of it. He then came to the
Mother of the Faithful (Hafsa) and narrated it to her and she said:
What concern you have with him? Don't you know that Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) said that the first thing (by the incitement
of which) he would come out before the public would be his anger?

Chapter 18: ACCOUNT OF THE DAJJAL AND HIS FEATURES AND WHAT
WOULD BE ALONG WITH HIM

Ibn Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him).
made a mention of Dajjil in the presence of the people and said: Allah
is not one-eyed and behold that Dajjal is blind of the right eye and
his eye would be like a floating grape.

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: There is never a prophet who has not warned the Ummah of that
one-eyed liar; behold he is one-eyed and your Lord is not one-eyed.
On his forehead are the letters k f. r. (Kafir).

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: Dajjal is blind of one eye and there is written between his eyes
the word" Kafir". He then spelled the word as k. f. r., which every
Muslim would be able to read.

Hudhalfa reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
Dajjal is blind of left eye with thick hair and there would be a garden
and fire with him and his fire would be a garden and his garden would
be fire.

Hudhaifa reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
the Dajjal would have with him water and fire and his fire would bays
the effect of cold water and his water would have the effect of fire,
so don't put yourself to ruin. Abu Mas'ud reported: I also heard it
from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him).

'Uqba b. 'Amr Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari reported: I went to Hudhaifa b.
Yaman and said to him: Narrate what you have heard from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) pertaining to the Dajjal. He said that the Dajjal
would appear and there would be along with him water ant fire and what
the people would see as water that would be fire and that would burn
and what would appear as fire that would be water and any one of you
who would see that should plunge in that which he sees as fire for it
would be sweet, pure water, and 'Uqba said: I also heard it, testifying
Hudhaifa.

Hudhaifa and Ibn Mas'ud met together. Hudhaifa said: I know more than
you as to what there would be along with the Dajjal. There would be
along with him two canals (one flowing with water) and the other one
(having) fire (within it), and what you would see as fire would be water
and what you would see as water would be fire. So he who amongst you
is able to see that and is desirous of water should drink out of that
which he sees as fire.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: May I not inform you about the Dajjal what no Apostle of Allah
narrated to his people? He would be blind and he would bring along with
him an Image of Paradise and Hell-Fire and what he would call as Paradise
that would be Hell-Fire and I warn you as Noah warned his people.

An-Nawwas b. Sam'an reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) made a mention of the Dajjal one day in the morning. He sometimes
described him to be insignificant and sometimes described (his turmoil)
as very significant rand we felt) as if he were in the cluster of the
date-palm trees. When we went to him (to the Holy Prophet) in the evening
and he read (the signs of fear) in our faces, he said: What is the matter
with you? We said: Allah's Messenger, you made a mention of the Dajjal
in the morning (sometimes describing him) to be insignificant and sometimes
very important, until we began to think as if he were present in some
(near) part of the cluster of the datpalm trees. Thereupon he said:
I harbour fear in regard to you in so many other things besides the
Dajjal. If he comes forth while I am among on, I shall contend with
him on your behalf, but if he comes forth while I am not amongst you,
a man must contend on his own behalf and Allah would take care of every
Muslim on my behalf (and safeguard him against his evil). He (Dajjal)
would be a young man with twisted, contracted hair, and a blind eye.
I compare him to 'Abd-ul-'Uzza b. Qatan. He who amongst you would survive
to see him should recite over him the opening verses of Sura Kahf (xviii.).
He would appear on the way between Syria and Iraq and would spread mischief
right and left. O servant of Allah! adhere (to the path of Truth). We
said: Allah's Messenger, how long would he stay on the earth? He said..
For forty days, one day like a year and one day like a month and one
day like a week and the rest of the days would be like your days. We
said: Allah's Messenger, would one day's prayer suffice for the prayers
of day equal to one year? Thereupon he said: No, but you must make an
estimate of time (and then observe prayer). We said: Allah's Messenger,
how quickly would he walk upon the earth? Thereupon he said: Like cloud
driven by the wind. He would come to the people and invite them (to
a wrong religion) and they would affirm their faith in him and respond
to him. He would then give command to the sky and there would be rainfall
upon the earth and it would grow crops. Then in the evening, their posturing
animals would come to them with their humps very high and their udders
full of milk and their flanks stretched. He would then come to another
people and invite them. But they would reject him and he would go away
from them and there would be drought for them and nothing would be lef
t with them in the form of wealth.

He would then walk through the waste, land and say to it: Bring forth
your treasures, and the treasures would come out and collect (themselves)
before him like the swarm of bees. He would then call a person brimming
with youth and strike him with the sword and cut him into two pieces
and (make these pieces lie at a distance which is generally) between
the archer and his target. He would then call (that young man) and he
will come forward laughing with his face gleaming (with happiness) and
it would at this very time that Allah would send Christ, son of Mary,
and he will descend at the white minaret in the eastern side of Damscus
wearing two garments lightly dyed with saffron and placing his hands
on the wings of two Angels. When he would lower his head, there would
fall beads of perspiration from his head, and when he would raise it
up, beads like pearls would scatter from it. Every non-believer who
would smell the odour of his self would die and his breath would reach
as far as he would be able to see. He would then search for him (Dajjal)
until he would catch hold of him at the gate of Ludd and would kill
him. Then a people whom Allah had protected would come to Jesus, son
of Mary, and he would wipe their faces and would inform them of their
ranks in Paradise and it would be under such conditions that Allah would
reveal to Jesus these words: I have brought forth from amongst My servants
such people against whom none would be able to fight; you take these
people safely to Tur, and then Allah would send Gog and Magog and they
would swarm down from every slope. The first of them would pass the
lake of Tibering and drink out of it. And when the last of them would
pass, he would say: There was once water there. Jesus and his companions
would then be besieged here (at Tur, and they would be so much hard
pressed) that the head of the ox would be dearer to them than one hundred
dinirs and Allah's Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would supplicate
Allah, Who would send to them insects (which would attack their necks)
and in the morning they would perish like one single person. Allah's
Apostle, Jesus, and his companions would then come down to the earth
and they would not find in the earth as much space as a single span
which is not filled with their putrefaction and stench. Allah's Apostle,
Jesus, and his companions would then again beseech Allah, Who would
send birds whose necks would be like those of bactrin camels and they
would carry them and throw them where God would will.

Then Allah would send rain which no house of clay or (the tent of)
camels' hairs would keep out and it would wash away the earth until
it could appear to be a mirror. Then the earth would be told to bring
forth its fruit and restore its blessing and, as a result thereof, there
would grow (such a big) pomegranate that a group of persons would be
able to eat that, and seek shelter under its skin and milch cow would
give so much milk that a whole party would be able to drink it. And
the milch camel would give such (a large quantity of) milk that the
whole tribe would be able to drink out of that and the milch sheep would
give so much milk that the whole family would be able to drink out of
that and at that time Allah would send a pleasant wind which would soothe
(people) even under their armpits, and would take the life of every
Muslim and only the wicked would survive who would commit adultery like
asses and the Last Hour would come to them.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jabir with the same
chain of transmitters but with this addition that Gog and Magog would
walk until they would reach the mountain of al-Khamar and it is a mountain
of Bait-ul-Maqdis and they would say: We have killed those who are upon
the earth. Let us now kill those who are In the sky and they would throw
their arrows towards the sky and the arrows would return to them besmeared
with blood. And in the narration of Ibn Hujr (the words are):" I have
sent such persons (Gog and Magog) that none would dare fight against
them.

Chapter 19: THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE DAJJAL AND A BAN ON HIS
ENTRY TO MEDINA AND HIS KILLING OF A BELIEVER AND THEN RESTORING HIM TO
LIFE

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) one day gave a detailed account of the Dajjal and in that
it was also included: He would come but would not be allowed to ether
the mountain passes to Medina. So he will alight at some of the barren
tracts near Medina, and a person who would be the best of men or one
from amongst the best of men would say to him: I bear testimony to the
fact that you are Dajjal about whom Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) had informed us. The Dajjal would say: What is your opinion
if I kill this (person), then I bring him back to life; even then will
you harbour doubt in this matter? They would say: No. He would then
kill (the man) and then bring him back to life. When he would bring
tha@ person to life, he would say: By Allah, I had no better proof of
the fact (that you are a Dajjal) than at the present time (that you
are actually so). The Dajjal would then make an attempt to kill him
(again) but he would not be able to do that. Abu Ishaq reported that
it was said: That person would be Khadir (Allah be pleased with him).

Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The Dajjal would come forth and a person from amongst
the believers would go towards him and the armed men of the Dajjal would
meet him and they would say to him: Where do you intend to go? He would
say: I intend to go to this one who is coming forth. They would say
to him: Don't you believe in our Lord? He would say: There is nothing
hidden about our Lord. They would say: Kill him. Then some amongst them
would say: Has your master (Dajjal) not forbidden you to kill anyone
without (his consent)? And so they would take him to the Dajjal and
when the believer would see him, he would say: O people. he is the Dajjil
about whom Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) has informed (us).
The Dajjal would then order for breaking his head and utter (these words):
Catch hold of him and break his head. He would be struck even on his
back and on his stomach. Then the Dajjal would ask him: Don't you believe
in me? He would say: You are a false Masih. He would then order him
to be torn (into pieces) with a saw from the parting of his hair up
to his legs. After that the Dajjal would walk between the two pieces.
He would then say to him: Stand, and he would stand erect. He would
then say to him: Don't you believe in me? And the person would say:
It has only added to my insight concerning you (that you are really
the Dajjal). He would then say: O people, he would not behave with anyone
amongst people (in such a manner) after me. The Dajjal would try to
catch hold of him so that he should kill him (again). The space between
his neck and collar bone would be turned into copper and he would find
no means to kill him. So he would catch hold of him by his hand and
feet and throw him (into the air) and the people would think as if he
had been thrown in the Hell-Fire whereas he would be thrown in Paradise.
Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: He would be
the most eminent amongst persons in regard to martyrdom in the eye of
the Lord of the world.

Chapter 20: THE DAJJAL WOULD BE VERY INSIGNIFICANT IN THE EYE
OF ALLAH, THE MAJESTIC AND GLORIOUS

Mughira b. Shu'ba reported: No one asked Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) more about Dajjil than I asked him. He said: He should
not be a source of worry to you for he would not be able to do any harm
to you. I said: Allah's Messenger, it is alleged that he would have
along with him (abundance of) food and water. Thereupon he said: He
would be very insignificant in the eye of Allah (even) with all this.

Mughira b. Shu'ba reported that none asked Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) about Dajjal more than I asked him. I (one of the narrators
other than Mughlra b. Shu'ba) said: What'did you ask? Mughira replied:
I said that the people alleged that he would have a mountain load of
bread and mutton and rivers of water. Thereupon he said: He would be
more insignificant in the eye of Allah compared with all this.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Isma'il through
other chains of transmitters with a slight variation of wording.

Chapter 21: THE APPEARANCE OF THE DAJJAL AND HIS STAY UPON THE
EARTH AND THE DESCENT OF JESUS AND HIS KILLING HIM (DAJJAL) AND THE DEPARTURE
OF GOOD PEOPLE OF STRONG CONVICTION AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE WICKED PEOPLE
AND THE WORSHIP OF IDOLS AND THE BLOWING OF THE TRUMPET AND THE RAISING
UP FROM THE GRAVES

'Abdullah b. 'Amr reported that a person came to him and said: What
is this hadith that you narrate that the Last Hour would come at such
and such time? Thereupon he said: Hallowed be Allah, there is no god
but Allah (or the words to the same effect). I have decided that I would
not narrate anything to anyone now. I had only said that you would see
after some time an important event that the (sacred) House (Ka'ba) would
be burnt and it would happen and definitely happen. He then reported
that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: The Dajjal would
appear in my Ummah and he would stay (in the world) for forty-I cannot
say whether he meant forty days, forty months or forty years. And Allah
would then send Jesus son of Mary who would resemble 'Urwa b Mas'ud.
He (Jesus Christ) would chase him and kill him. Then people would live
for seven years that there would be no ran. cour between two persons.
Then Allah would send cold wind from the side of Syria that none would
survive upon the earth having a speck of good in him or faith in him
but he would die, so much so that even if some amongst you were to enter
the innermost part of the mountain, this wind would reach that place
also and that would cause his heath. I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: Only the wicked people would survive and
they would be as careless as birds with the charactertistics of beasts.
They would never appreciate the good nor condemn evil. Then the Satan
would come to them in human form and would say: Don't you respond? And
they would say: What do you order us? And he would command them to worship
the idols but, in spite of this, they would have abundance of sustenance
and lead comfortable lives. Then the trumpet would be blown and no one
would hear that but he would bend hfs neck to one side and raise it
from the other side and the first one to hear that trumpet would be
the person who would be busy in setting right the tank meant for providing
water to the camels. He would swoon and the other people would also
swoon, then Allah would send or He would cause to send rain which would
be like dew and there would grow out of it the bodies of the people.
Then the second trumpet would be blown and they would stand up and begin
to look (around). Then it would be said: O people, go to your Lord,
and make them stand there. And they would be questioned. Then it would
be said: Bring out a group (out of them) for the Hell-Fire. And then
it would be asked: How much? It would be said: Nine hundred and ninty-nine
out of one thousand for the Hell-Fire and that would be the day which
would make the children old because of its terror and that would be
the day about which it has been said:" On the day when the shank would
be uncovered" (lxviii. 42).

Ya'qub b. 'Asim b. Urwa b. Mas'ud reported: I heard a person saying
to 'Abdullah b. Amr: You say that the Last Hour would come at such and
such time, whereupon he said: I had made up my mind that I would not
narrate anything to you. I only said: But you would soon see after some
time a very significant affair, for example the burning of the House
(Ka'ba). Shu'ba said like this and 'Abdullah b Amr reported Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said: The Dajjal would appear
in my Ummah. And in another hadith (the words are): None would survive
who would have even a speck of faith in his heart, but he would be dead.
Muhammad b. ja'far reported that Shu'ba narrated to him this hadith
many a time and I also read it out to him many a time.

Abdullah b. 'Amr reported: I committed to memory a hadith from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and I did not forget it after I had
heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The first
sign (nut of the signs of the appearance of the Dajjal) would be the
appearance of the sun from the west, the appearance of the beast before
the people in the forenoon and whkch of the two hap- pens first, the
second one would follow immediately after that.

Abu Zur'a reported that three persons amongst Muslims had been sitting
in Medina in the presence of Marwan b. Hakam and they heard him narrate
these signs from him and the first amongst them was the appearance of
the Dajjal. 'Abdullah b. 'Amr reported that Marwin said nothing (particular
in this connection). I, however, heard a hadith from Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) and I did not forget that after I had heard
that from Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and he reported a
hadith like the foregoing.

Abu Zur'a reported that there was a discussion in the presence of
Marwan about the Last Hour, and Abdullah b. 'Amr said: I heard Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying. The rest of the hadith
is the same, but there is no mention of forenoon.

Amir b. Sharahil Sha'bi Sha'b Hamdan reported that he asked Fatima,
daughter of Qais and sister of ad-Dahhak b. Qais and she was the first
amongst the emigrant women: Narrate to me a hadith which you had heard
directly from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and there is
no extra link in between them. She said: Very well, if you like, I am
prepared to do that, and he said to her: Well, do It and narrate that
to me. She said: I married the son of Mughira and he was a chosen young
man of Quraish at that time, but he fell as a martyr in the first Jihad
(fighting) on the side of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him).
When I became a widow, 'Abd al-Rahman b. Auf, one amongst the group
of the Companions of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him), sent
me the proposal of marriage. Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
also sent me such a message for his freed slave Usama b. Zaid. And it
had been conveyed to me that Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him)
had said (about Usama): He who loves me should also love Usima. When
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) talked to me (about this matter),
I said: My affairs are in your hand. You may marry me to anyone whom
you like. He said: You better shift now to the house of Umm Sharik,
and Umm Sharik was a rich lady from amongst the Anqir. She spent generously
for the cause of Allah and entertained guests very hospitably. I said:
Well, I will do as you like. He said: Do not do that for Umm Sharik
is a woman who is very frequently vizited by guests and I do not like
that your head may be uncovered or the cloth may be removed from your
shank and the strangers may catch sight of them which you abhor. You
better shift to the house of your cousin 'Abdullah b. 'Amr b. Umm Maktum
and he is a person of the Bani Fihr branch of the Quraish, and he belonged
to that tribe (to which Fatima) belonged. So I shifted to that house,
and when my period of waiting was over, I heard the voice of an announcer
making an announcement that the prayer would be observed in the mosque
(where) congregational prayer (is observed).

So I set out towards that mosque and observed prayer along with Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) and I was in the row of the women
which was near the row of men. When Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) had finished his prayer, he sat on the pulpit smiling and
said: Every worshipper should keep sitting at his place. He then said:
Do you know why I had asked you to assemble? They said: Allah and His
Messenger know best. He said: By Allah. I have not made you assemble
for exhortation or for a warning, but I have detained you here, for
Tamim Dari, a Christian, who came and accepted Islam, told me something,
which agrees with what I was-telling, yuu about the Dajjal. He narrated
to me that he had sailed in a ship along with thirty men of Bani Lakhm
and Bani Judham and had been tossed by waves in the ocean for a month.
Then these (waves) took them (near) the land within the ocean (island)
at the time of sunset. They sat in a small side-boat and entered that
Island. There was a beast with long thick hair (and because of these)
they could not distinguish his face from his back. They said: Woe to
you, who can you be? Thereupon it said: I am al-Jassasa. They said:
What is al-Jassasa? And it said: O people, go to this person in the
monastery as he is very much eager to know about you. He (the narrator)
said: When it named a person for us we were afraid of it lest it should
be a Devil. Then we hurriedly went on till we came to that monastery
and found a well-built person there with his hands tied to his neck
and having iron shackles between his two legs up to the ankles. We said:
Woe be upon thee, who are you? And he said: You would soon come to know
about me. but tell me who are you. We said: We are people from Arabia
and we embarked upon a boat but the sea-waves had been driving us for
one month and they brought as near this island. We got Into the side-boats
and entered this island and here a beast met us with profusely thick
hair and because of the thickness of his hair his face could not be
distinguished from his back. We said: Woe be to thee, who are you? It
said: I am al- Jassasa. We said: What is al-Jassasa? And it said: You
go to this very person in the monastery for he is eagerly waiting for
you to know about you. So we came to you in hot haste fearing that that
might be the Devil. He (that chained person) said: Tell me about the
date-palm trees of Baisan. We &aid: About what aspect of theirs do you
seek information? He said: I ask you whether these trees bear fruit
or not.

We said: Yes Thereupon he said: I think these would not bear fruits.
He said: Inform me about the lake of Tabariyya? We said: Which aspect
of it do you want to know? He said: Is there water in it? They said:
There is abundance of water in it. Thereupon he said: I think it would
soon become dry. He again said: Inform me about the spring of Zughar.
They said: Which aspect of it you want to know? He (the chained person)
said: Is there water in it and does it irrigate (the land)? We said
to him: Yes, there is abundance of water in it and the inhabitants (of
Medina) irrigate (land) with the help of it, He said: Inform me about
the unlettered Prophet; what has he done? We said: He has come out from
Mecca and has settled In Yathrib (Medina). He said: Do the Arabs fight
against him? We said: Yes. He said: How did he deal with him? We informed
him that he had overcome those in his neighbourhood and they had submitted
themselves before him. Thereupon he said to us: Had it actually happened?
We said: Yes. Thereupon he said: If it is so that is better for them
that they should show obedience to him. I am going to tell you about.
myself and I am Dajjal and would be soon permitted to get out and so
I shall get out and travel in the land, and will not spare any town
where I would not stay for forty nights except Mecca and Medina as these
two (places) are prohibited (areas) for me and I would not make an attempt
to enter any one of these two. An angel with a sword in his hand would
confront me and would bar my way and there would be angels to guard
every passage leading to it; then Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) striking the pulpit with the help of the end of his staff said:
This implies Taiba meaning Medina. Have I not, told you an account (of
the Dajjal) like this? 'The people said: Yes, and this account narrated
by Tamim Dari was liked by me for it corroborates the account which
I gave to you in regard to him (Dajjal) at Medina and Mecca. Behold
he (Dajjal) is in the Syrian sea (Mediterranian) or the Yemen sea (Arabian
sea). Nay, on the contrary, he As In the east, he is in the east, he
is in the east, and he pointed with his hand towards the east. I (Fatima
bint Qais) said: I preserved It In my mind (this narration from Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him).

Al-Sha'bi reported: We visited Fatima b. Qais and she served us fresh
dates which are called rutab and she also served us barley. I asked
her about that woman in whose case three divorces had been pronounced
as to how much time she should count as the waiting period. She said:
My husband pronounced three divorces in my case and Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon him) permitted me to spend any waiting period in
my family. (It was during this period) that announcement was made for
the people to observe prayer in the bigger Mosque. I went there along
with people and I was in the front row meant for women and it was adjacent
to the last row of men and I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) deliver sermon sitting on the pulpit. He said: The cousin of Tamim
(Dari) sailed in the ocean. The rest of the hadith is the same but with
this addition:" (I see) as if I am looking to Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) pointing his rod towards the land (and saying): It is Taiba,
i. e. Medina."

Tamim Dari came to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) and informed
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) that he sailed in an ocean
and his ship lost direction and thus landed at an island. They moved
about in that land in search of water. There they saw a person who had
been pulling his hair. The rest of the hadith is the same. And he (Dajjal)
said: If I were to be permitted to set out I would have covered all
the lands except Taiba. Then Allah's Messerger (may peace be upon him)
brought (Tamim Dari) before the public and he narrated to them and said:
That is Taiba and that is the Dajjal.

Fatima b. Qais reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) sat on the pulpit and said: O people, Tamim Dari has reported to
me that some persons of his tribe sailed in the ocean in a boat and
it capsised and then some of them travelled on one of the planks of
the boat and they went to an island in the ocean. The rest of the hadith
is the same.

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him)
said: There will be no land which would not be covered by the Dajjal
but Mecca and Medina, and there would no passage out of the passages
leading to them which would not be guarded by angels arranged in rows.
Then he (the Dajjal) would appear in a barren place adjacent to Medina
and it would rock three times that every unbeliever and hypocrite would
get out of it towards him.

This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Anas that Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) said this but with this addition that
(the Dajjal would come) and pitch his tent in the waste-land of Juruf
and thus there would come out of (the city) every hypocrite, man and
woman.

Umm Sharik reported: I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon
him) as saying: The people would run away from the Dajjal seeking shelter
in the mountains. She said: Where would be the Arabs then in that day?
He said: They would be small in number.

Abu Qatada reported: We used to go to Imran b. Husain passing in front
of Hisham b. 'Amir. He, one day, said: You pass by me (in order) to
go to some per- sons but (amongst ttie living persons) none remained
in the company of Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) more than
I and none knows more ahadith than I. I heard Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) as saying: There would be no creation (creating more
trouble) than the Dajjal right from the creation of Adam to the Last
Hour.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) having
said: Hasten to do good deeds before six things happen: the rising of
the sun from the west, the smoke, the Dajjal, the beast and (the death)
of one of you or the general turmoil.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: Hasten in performing these good deeds (before these) six things
(happen): (the appearance) of tribe Dijjal, the smoke, the beast of
the earth, the rising of the sun from the west, the general turmoil
(leadina to large-scale massacre) and death of masses and individuals.

This hadith has been reported by Sahl b. Sa'd that he heard Allah's
Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I and the Last Hour are
(close to each other) like this (and he, in order to explain it) pointed
(by joining his) forefinger, (one) next to the thumb and the middle
finger (together).

Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (way peace be upon him)
said: I and the Last Hour have been sent like this. Shu'ba said: I heard
Qatada as saying in his narration: The excellence of one over the other.
And I do not know whether he narrated it from Anas or Qatada himself
said so.

Shu'ba reported: I heard Qatada and Abu Tayyab narrating that both
of them heard Anas as narrating that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) said: I and the Last Hour have been sent like this, and Shu'ba
drew his forefinger and middle finger near each other while narrating
it.

'A'isha reported that when the desert Arabs came to Allable Messenger
(may peace be upon him) they asked about the Last Hour as to when that
would come. And he looked towards the youngest amongst them and said:
If he lives he would not grow very old that he would find your Last
Hour coming to you the would see you dying).

Anas reported that a person asked Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as to when the Last Hour would come. He had in his presence
a young boy of the Ansar who was called Mabammad. Allah's Messenger
(may peace be upon bion) said: If this young boy lives. he may not grow
very old till (he would see) the Last Hour coming to you.

Anas b. Malik reported that a person asked Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him): When would the Last Hour come? Thereupon Allah's Messenger
(way peace be upon him) kept quiet for a while. then looked at a young
boy in his presence belonging to the tribe of Azd Shanilwa and he said:
If this boy lives he would not grow very old till the Last Hour would
come to you. Anas said that this young boy was of our age daring those
days.

Anas reported: A young boy of Mughira b. Shu'ba happened to pass by
(the Holy Prophet) and he was of my age Thereupon Allah's Apostle (may
peace be apon him) said: If he lives long he would not grow very old
till the Last Hour would come (to the old People of this generation).

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: The Last Hour would come (so sudden) that a person would be
milking the she- camel and the (milk) would not reach the brim of the
vessel that the Last Hour would come, and the two persons would be engaged
in buying and selling of the clothes and their bargain would not be
struck before the Last Hour would come. And someone would be setting
his tank in order and he would have hardly set it right when the Last
Hour would come.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
saying: Between the two blowiings of the trumpet (there would be an
interval of forty). They said: Abu Huraira, do you mean forty days?
He said: I cannot say anything. They said: Do you mean fortv months?
He said: I cannot say anything They said: Do you mean forty years? He
said: I cannot say anything. Then Allah would cause the water to, descend
from the sky and they (people) will sprout like vegetable The only thing
in a man which would not decay would be one bone (spinal chord) from
which the whole frame would be reconstituted on the Day of Resurrection.

Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as
say- ing: The earth would consume every son of Adam except his spinal
chord from which his body would be reconstituted (on the Day of Resurrection).

Abu Huraira reported so many ahadith from Allah's Apostle (may peace
be upon him) and amongst these one was this that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: There is a bone in the human being which the
earth would never consume and it is from this that new bodies would
be reconstituted (on the Day of Resurrection). They said: Allah's Messenger,
which bone is that? Thereupon he said: It is the spinal bone.